CHAPTER 245: CHAPTER 245 IT TOOK YOU TOO LONG TO NOTICE

Silicone Valley Police Station, a different interrogation room.

Kelsie was suddenly moved into another interrogation room deeper in the station an hour after Jane left, and she still refused to say a word.

At this point, the detectives were getting impatient.

"Your fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. Denying it even at this point will do you no good, do you not know that?"

"You must think having a lawyer will save you, but with such concrete evidence, believe me, there’s really not much she can do" The second one butted in, folding both arms across his chest.

Kelsie sucked in a deep breath and looked the first detective in the eye. "If you already have all those, why do you need my admittance?"

The detective immediately went silent.

Indeed, they did have her fingerprints, but given the circumstances of the ’murder weapon’, they knew better than anyone her lawyer might get it thrown out in court.

Since she already did the crime, threatening her a little and using her guilt against her was what they banked on, but she was no easy target.

After a while, the first detective glanced behind him, ordering the people watching to turn off the cameras and microphones.

Then he turned back to her.

Eyes locked on hers, he reached out and turned off the computer he had been typing the events of the interrogation on, then pushed it aside.

"There. No one is watching or listening. I’m not typing either. If the only reason you’re not saying anything is because you fear the death sentence, be honest with us now and we’ll help plead with the judge to take it easy on you."

The second officer nodded solemnly in agreement.

Kelsie stared at both for several seconds before she began leaning forward.

Thinking they had finally cracked her, the detectives reined in their excitement and also leaned forward in anticipation.

"There’s a pen recorder in your shirt pocket." She said, pointing at his left pocket.

"P-pen... oh, damn it!" The man sucked on his teeth when he looked and really saw the pen recorder.

Of course he knew there was a pen recorder in his pocket, he had put it there. Unfortunately, he forgot to push it all the way down.

But how could he have known she knew what a pen recorder was and call him out for it?

Exhaling heavily, he took it out and got on his feet.

"You will not get away with this."

Kelsie pursed her lips and leaned back. "You’re talking to me without my lawyer present. Do you know how scared that makes a successful brain surgeon like me?"

The detectives paused, subconsciously glancing at each other at the subtle hint of threat beneath those words.

Brain surgeons were already respected. If they were successful and had a lot of clients who were thankful to them, they knew they would have a riot on their hands if any of her patients found out of this.

Without saying another word, they turned and left.

An hour later, the same detectives returned with Jane to uncuff her.

"I doubt you’d want to know what I pulled to get you out of here, but I pulled something legal." Jane mused once she saw Kelsie heading toward her at the counter.

However, Kelsie didn’t get a chance to retort as one of the detectives sneered.

"Go home, sleep, bathe, then dress in your best clothes because we will be arraigning you in court in a few hours."

Kelsie said nothing and quietly took the things that had been taken from her when she was brought in.

Outside, she was handed the key to her car, and she walked straight to it.

When she got to the driver’s side of the door, she sighed and turned to look at Jane, who had remained rooted to the spot, doing nothing to hide the gleam in her eyes.

"Are you disgusted with me for being arrested?"

Only then did Jane realize she hadn’t move an inch and thinned her lips.

"You’re dating Jett Adler." She mumbled when she got to the car.

Kelsie narrowed her eyes at her.

"When you say it like that, I can’t help feeling offended because it seems like he’s doing me a favor by dating me."

Jane hurriedly shook her head in refusal and embraced herself tightly, a dreamy look in her eyes.

"I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just that I never knew he was seeing someone. Let alone my client."

"Do you know the thousands of people who’ll line up asking to be my client once they find out I’m the lawyer of Jett’s fiancée? That’s how powerful he is."

Kelsie’s eyes dimmed, and she slowly felt her red and bruised wrists.

"He didn’t come with you?"

"No, he had something to do at Adler Group."

"I figured."

Jane paused.

Uh, why did it suddenly get gloomy?

Kelsie got into the car, and Jane hurried to get into hers as well.

She had hundreds of thoughts going through her head at that moment, so it wasn’t until she followed after Kelsie in her car that she finally realized why the weather was gloomy back at the station.

Jett had told her to say he was at Adler Group as he knew once he came to the station to see her, he wouldn’t be able to work with Maxwell efficiently, so he stayed back.

As she drove into the practice with Jane, a car parked at the end of the street watched them like a hawk.

"Do you usually follow your clients after they’ve been arrested, or did you follow me because I’m the first client to be arrested and you don’t usually know how to handle them?" Kelsie questioned as Jane parked right next to her.

The woman didn’t know when she sighed.

"Okay, Ms. Sutton. Why are you so cynical today?"

Kelsie looked away from her.

She wasn’t cynical. She was angry.

Whoever that bastard was just framed her for murder, yet she couldn’t do a single thing to save herself.

If she hadn’t gotten a lawyer before now, she would’ve gotten a stupid pro bono lawyer who’d definitely get her life imprisonment.

Slipping both hands into her coat jacket, she shrugged and began strutting toward her practice’s building.

"It’s nothing, Ms. Peterson. Thank you for getting me out of there. Now, please, go do more work so I don’t return there for good."

Inside, neither Molly nor her other employees knew what had happened to her and assumed she was only late today.

Molly handed her her schedule for the day at the reception, and after going through them, she placed it on the reception desk and stared up at her with a small smile.

"There’s nothing major today, so we’ll be able to finish on time. Once I’m done with the last patient, don’t send anyone else in and come visit me."

Molly nodded without hesitation.

It was mostly consultation and nothing more, so Kelsie was done in less than two hours.

A knock sounded on the door three minutes later, shortly followed by it being pushed in.

She didn’t raise her head until Molly was sitting right in front of her. Then she got up to take off her coat, chuckling, "Molly, you remember the first day we met?"

Molly clasped both hands together, reminiscing with a smile, "How could I not? I was so happy I got to be with you. It was also the day I got to meet Jett Adler."

Kelsie was silent for several seconds before Molly heard her soft laughter, "It was you, wasn’t it?"

The nurse pursed, her brows wrinkling as she turned to Kelsie who was standing a few steps to her right.

"I... I do not understand, Dr. Sutton."

"It’s you, Molinda. The one he has spying on me." Kelsie repeated, her eyes darkening.

Molly’s brows furrowed in confusion.

"What do you mean? Who is this he you’re talking about?"

Kelsie smiled and straightened up again.

"I had my suspicions, but they weren’t toward you. They were toward someone else. However, during the past few months, after she found her long-lost brother, he’s barely let her out of his sight."

"It also made it possible for me to properly track her down to her root. You, on the other hand, I realized I have nothing on."

"Yet you’re my only staff, and I trust you so much. This morning, the police didn’t come to the practice looking for me."

"They knew just when and where to wait. The only person who had that information... was you."

Molly remained unfazed, the confusion in her eyes only deepening.

"Dr. Sutton, forgive me, but I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Police? Were you arrested this morning? Is that why you came so late?"

Whilst she was speaking, Kelsie turned and abruptly struck her foot toward her head.

This wasn’t a friendly gesture. But even if it was, she swung her foot with the intent to kill.

Dropping her foot, she wasn’t very surprised when she looked and realized Molly was no longer seated where she was a second ago.

For the ordinary person she was pretending to be, she got to safety way too fast.

Standing by the door, the confusion in Molly’s eyes slowly wilted away, instantly getting replaced by a mocking smile as she looked up at Kelsie.

"For someone so observant, it took you too long to notice."